PITT COUNTY, N.C. (WNCT) — Effective Thursday, January 1, 2026, North Carolina Registers of Deeds are authorized to issue certified copies of adoptive birth certificates under Senate Bill 248, Birth ...

A Maryland woman has spent days in immigration detention despite being a U.S. citizen with a valid birth certificate and other documentation — documents ICE claims aren’t authentic, her attorneys told ...

A woman was taking a closer look at her birth certificate when she noticed something that caught her by surprise. Ruby Jade, 24, a graphic designer from Victoria, Australia, took to TikTok, posting ...

The first time I held my original birth certificate, I was in my 50s. I’d spent a lifetime knowing that I was adopted. I was loved, supported and grateful for my family, but still missing the first ...

New Yorkers who were adopted from a foreign country by state residents can get a birth certificate even if they are now adults, after Gov. Kathy Hochul signed a related bill into law Friday. The ...

A small but growing number of pregnant women are choosing to give birth without any assistance from a midwife or doctor, trusting instead in influencers’ tales of the “euphoria” of a “free birth”. A ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — A bipartisan bill that would eliminate fees for state IDs and birth certificates for Ohioans experiencing homelessness is headed to the House floor after clearing its committee ...

In Arizona last week, a cisgender male 8th grader was “physically removed” from tryouts for his school’s boys’ basketball team because an error on his ...

Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador on Monday announced a move to restore state laws banning transgender people from changing their birth certificates to reflect their gender identity. In a motion ...

QUEEN CREEK, Ariz. (KTVK/KPHO/Gray News) - An eighth-grade boy from Arizona was removed from his high school’s boys basketball tryouts and told he can only play on ...

An Arizona 14-year-old boy was barred from playing for his high school’s boys’ basketball team, but told he could join the girls’ roster because of a clerical ...

Janai Nelson, president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, argued her first case in front of the Supreme Court this week, defending Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which ...